Neurosurgery and Medical Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Opening Ceremony Ninth Convention of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Presidential Welcome Address

      • H. August van Alphen

      Pages 3-4

   3. Opening Address to the 9th Convention

      • Keiji Sano

      Pages 5-6

   4. The Twain have met!

      • Ad Hoytink

      Pages 7-9

   5. Welcome Address on Behalf of the Netherlands Society of Neurosurgeons

      • Cees J. J. Avezaat

      Pages 11-12

3. Symposium Neurosurgery and Medical Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Introduction

      • H. August van Alphen

      Pages 15-16

   3. Medical Ethics from the Muslim Perspective

      • Abdulwahid van Bommel

      Pages 17-27

   4. Islam and Medical Ethics

      • Iftikhar Ali Raja, M. R. Chaudhry

      Pages 29-34

   5. Medical Ethics in India: Then and Now

      • Sunil K. Pandya

      Pages 35-46

   6. Biblical Moral and Religious Principles in Medical Practice

      • Raphael Evers

      Pages 47-52

   7. Carrying on the Healing Mission of Christ: Medical Ethics in the Christian Tradition

      • Willem Jacobus Eijk

      Pages 53-58

   8. Traditional Ethical Ideas on Life and Organ Transplantation in Japan

      • Hajime Handa

      Pages 59-60

   9. Principles and Concepts of Brain Death and Organ Donation: The Jewish Perspective

      • Z. H. Rappaport, I. T. Rappaport

      Pages 61-63

   10. Brain Death in Practice — A Retrospective View

       • E.-O. Backlund

       Pages 65-68

   11. Criteria for Selection of ‘Death with Dignity’ — From Clinical Cases of Malignant Brain Tumours

       • Masakatsu Nagai

       Pages 69-70

   12. Death With Dignity — On the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures

       • E.-O. Backlund

       Pages 71-74

   13. Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Transparency and Accountability

       • Rob Dillmann

       Pages 75-81

   14. New Technologies and Methods in Neurosurgery — Ethical Dilemmas

       • Tomasz Trojanowski

       Pages 83-87

This supplement of Acta Neurochirurgica contains the proceedings of the Ninth Convention of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica held in Chateau St. Gerlach, Houthem, The Netherlands, 29 July - 1 August 1998. During this convention a three-day symposium on Neurosurgery and Medical Ethics was held. In this time of tremendous technical advancement in medicine in general and neurosurgery in particular, we are liable to lose sight of the sick patient as a human being, and the odds are that he will be the object rather than the subject of our action in the near future. It is a purpose and a task of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica to recognize this thread and to pay attention to tradition, morality and ethics in neurological surgery. The theme of this convention and the subject of the symposium met this purpose as no other. In the scientific sessions during the first day, the moral backgrounds of medical ethics in the most important cultures and religions in east and west were elucidated by invited experts in this field. A mutual respectful understanding of each other's conception of and belief in ethical principles is a growing necessity in our multicultural societies in both continents. On the second day, the ethical aspects of different fields of neurological surgery were discussed by members of the Academia. In this context, also the internationally much-discussed and much-criticized regulations on euthanasia in The Netherlands were explained.

• Ethical Dilemma
• Ethical Standard
• Ethik
• Gentechnik
• Organ
• Religion
• Sterbehilfe/Euthanasie
• Transplantation
• Verantwortung
• ethics
• euthanisia
• genetic engineering
• medical ethics
• morality
• neurosurgery
• Trauma Surgery

"... The approach is refreshingly broadly based with contributions on the approaches to medical ethics from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Indian and Japanese perspectives, paying particular attention to the issues that are current in neurosurgery ... a very useful addition to libraries used by those who both train for and practice neurosurgery.” British Journal of Neurosurgery, 2000/14 (6)

• Department of Neurosurgery, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  H. August Alphen

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